Turmeric (Curcuma longa ) is a medicinal plant of the family Zingiberaceae widely growing throughout India. Turmeric oil is secondary metabolite of turmeric and obtained by steam distillation of its rhizomes. Turmeric oil a lipophilic fraction from turmeric, exhibits several therapeutic potentials. Turmeric oil chiefly comprises arturmerone and &be...

By Suruchi Verma, Vikas Kumar

Due to numerous side effects of synthetic remedies, people are turning increasingly to phytotherapy, which is based on the use of medicinal herbs. Pharmaceutical industry shows great interest in the usage of plants as raw materials in the remedy production. In the past ten years, a large number of in vitro and clinical studies focused on the therap...

By Milica Aćimović, Nataša Milić

This work summarizes the most commonly used methods of research of weed species in medicinal herbs. The choice of method depends on the type of research that we want to conduct. The methods relating to weed herbs are described in detail for the methods of examination of the weeds’ seed germination, methods for the determination of reserves of...

By Ana Matković, Sava Vrbničanin, Tatjana Marković, Dragana Božić

Pumpkin has been used frequently as functional food or medicine. In recent years due to numerous pharmacological effects, pumpkin polysaccahrides attract increased attention from researchers. Different investigations showed their antidiabetic, antioxidant, hypolipidemic, antibacterial and antitussive effect. Since most of the studies with pumpkin p...

By Jelena Živković, Katarina Šavikin, Gordana Zdunić, Teodora Janković

Chicory (Cichorium intybus L.) is traditionally recognized for its anti-inflammatory, antimicrobial, anticancer and nutritive properties. Among active secondary metabolites detected in chicory, the most important are sesquiterpene lactones and phenolics, including chlorogenic acid (CA). Hereby we have analyzed the content of CA in previously obtain...

By Milica Bogdanović, Milan Dragićević, Angelina Subotić, Ana Simonović, Slađana Todorović

In recent years great attention was paid to biological control, the application of natural products in order to protect crops and medicinal plants against contamination with phytopathogenic and saprophytic fungi. Essential oils have been evaluated as a potentially safe replacement for chemicals used for that purpose. In this regard, antifungal pote...

By Tatjana Stević, Slaviša Stanković, Katarina Šavikin, Dejan Gođevac, Ivica Dimkić, Marina Soković

This paper studies the effect of gibberellic acid (GA3), herbal preparation (LAB1) and the pre-cooling treatment (Ph) on seed germination of Origanum heracleoticum L. and Origanum vulgare L. As a control variant, seed treatment with distilled water was used. The highest germination energy (EK), germination after 14 days (14D) and total germination ...

By Vladimir Filipović, Vera Popović, Milica Aćimović, Tatjana Marković, Rade Protić

The most commonly used methods of isolation and concentration of certain constituents from herbal drugs with selected solvents are maceration, doubled maceration, digestion, turboextraction, percolation, repercolation, ultrasonic-assisted extraction and counter-current extraction. According to their consistency, extracts can be classified as liquid...

By Ljiljana Savić

According to the World Health Organization, Ayurveda is the oldest medical system in the world that is practiced continuously. It is considered the most complete knowledge and science of healthy living. According to the Vedic scriptures, until the end of the Middle Age, essential oils have been used for religious, medicinal and cosmetic purposes. T...

By Branko Čičić

U prethodnoj godini, u izdanju Akademije nauka i umjetnosti Republike Srpske izašla je iz štampe monografija „Obrazovanje, nauka i proizvodnja hrane“,autora akademika Vaskrsija Janjića. Radi se o izuzetno vrijednom dijelu u koje je autor uložio ogroman rad i znanje pa je tako stvorio djelo neobično, kompleksno i sadržajno ...

By Branko Škundurić